Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
